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  • Addiction Medicine

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  • Personality factors are long-recognized contributors to substance use disorders.
  • Recent advancements focus on targeted interventions for personality-related risk.
  • This review examines personality-targeted interventions for substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and management.

Approach:

  • Review of current practices in personality-targeted interventions.
  • Analysis of eight randomized trials evaluating intervention efficacy.
  • Assessment of substance use and misuse outcomes.

Key Points:

  • Personality-targeted interventions demonstrate a moderate mean effect size across various substance use outcomes.
  • Effectiveness is observed in diverse intervention settings and formats.
  • These interventions show promise in reducing and preventing substance misuse.

Conclusions:

  • Personality-targeted interventions offer advantages over traditional SUD treatments.
  • Particularly effective for preventing problems in high-risk populations.
  • Beneficial for addressing concurrent mental health issues in brief interventions.